Agreement 0006153, filed with the Texas Comptroller by ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS.
The remedy here is discretionary — the clause says it may be applied, not that it must be.
Where a deadline above has passed, no public record exists of whether it was met — not in the Comptroller’s filings, nor in the local government’s own disclosures. That is not evidence of non-compliance. Texas requires nobody to record it.
A local abatement waives only that taxing unit’s share of the property tax bill. School districts, counties, cities and hospital districts each sign separately.
| Field | Value & quoted source | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Granting body | ELLIS COUNTY, TEXASELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, acting by and through its County Judge or Presiding Officer, ("COUNTY"). | 1 |
| Contracting entity | FRESHPET, INC.FRESHPET, INC., a Delaware Corporation duly authorized to do business in the State of Texas, acting by and through its authorized officer ("OWNER") | 1 |
| Parent / guarantor | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Instrument | Tax AbatementTax Abatement 1'' Amended Agreement | 1 |
| Governing chapter | Chapter 312, Tax Code (property tax abatement)WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Ennis, Texas, (the “City Commission”), passed an Ordinance (the “Ordinance”) establishing Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No.58 (the “Zone”), for commercial/industrial tax abatement, as authorized by the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code, as amended (the “Tax Code”); | — |
| Capital investment | $100,000,000.00not later than January 1, 2023, at a cumulative cost of not less than One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00). | 3 |
| Grant or incentive | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Jobs committed | 225OWNER will create and maintain employment of at least 225 Jobs on the Premises not later than December 31, 2023. | 3 |
| Wage requirement | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Square footage | 400,000construction of a new 400,000 square foot manufacturing facility | 1 |
| Acreage | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Performance deadline | January 1, 2023completion of the Eligible Real Improvements described in Exhibit “B” of this Agreement not later than January 1, 2023 | 3 |
| Expiration | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Effective date | January 1, 2021"Effective Date" is defined as January 1, 2021. | 2 |
| Signatory | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Chain status | Terminal document — no later agreement in the registry names this one as its predecessor | — |
Agreement 0006153 is filed with the Texas Comptroller. Pull the PDF, go to the page number beside any row, and read the sentence. If a figure here does not match the document, tell me and it is corrected the same day.
Where the contract says nothing, the field is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
This is a single agreement. I have read 1,645 of the 4,428 Texas has filed, resolved which have been superseded, and recorded what each commits a company to.
Send me an entity and a county and I will tell you what is on it — quoted, page-cited, checked. Free for the first one.